Polar Bear in Space! - An Action packed game through Psytronik Software and RGCD gets a C64 release

What a great December this is turning out to be and it looks like the C64 goodness hasn't finished with us yet. As trawling through Facebook, we have just found out that the previously announced in development game of 'Polar Bear in Space!' is now available for download via Psytronik Software and RGCD. For those who didn't follow our previous write up, this is an absolutely stunning game in which you take control of an extremely cute Polar Bear in a quest to run, jump and zap through various alien-infested levels whilst collecting krystals. 

Jump! - The Amiga AGA version of Yoomp! is now available for pre-orders!

The Amiga scene just keeps on giving us the good stuff, as not only do we now know that Jump! is still coming to the Amiga, which is the Amiga AGA version of a game originally called Yoomp! But as of today you can pre-order the game with an official release of around spring 2022. Yoomp! 64 was originally released in 2020 by RGCD and Psytronik Software on the C64, as port of the fantastic Atari XE/XL game. It featured gaming mechanics in which you need to bounce a ball through many different three-dimensional textured tubes, to collect as many points as you can while trying not to fall off the edge.

Polar Bear in Space! - An Action packed game from Silvan Reinhold and Jon Wells is coming soon to a C64 near you

The C64 news just keeps on coming, as if Stoker and Star Hawx wasn't enough to whet your appetite, then you might be interested to learn, that some new gameplay footage has been shown for the upcoming C64 game POLAR BEAR IN SPACE; an absolutely stunning game, in which you take control of an extremely cute Polar Bear in his quest to run, jump and zap through various alien-infested levels whilst collecting krystals. 

POLAR BEAR IN SPACE! - An Action packed game from Unrolled Loop Studios LLC is coming soon to a C64 near you

The C64 news just keeps on coming, as if Muddy Racers wasn't enough to whet your appetite, then you might be interested to learn, that Psytronik Software in association with RGCD, will soon be releasing the C64 game of 'POLAR BEAR IN SPACE' developed by Unrolled Loop Studios LLC; an absolutely stunning debut release, in which you take control of an extremely cute Polar Bear in his quest to run, jump and zap through various alien-infested levels whilst collecting krystals. 

Jump! - Amiga version of Yoomp! appears in new gameplay footage

The Amiga scene just keeps on giving us the good stuff, as not only do we now know that Jump! is still coming to the Amiga, which is the Amiga AGA version of a game originally called Yoomp! But as of today a new gameplay teaser has been released below. Yoomp! 64 was released last year by RGCD and Psytronik Software on the C64, as port of the fantastic Atari XE/XL game. It featured gaming mechanics in which you need to bounce a ball through many different three-dimensional textured tubes, to collect as many points as you can while trying not to fall off the edge.

Monstro Giganto - Hayesmaker64 gives this latest PETSCII C64 brawler a Full Review!

Monstro Giganto (C64)

Out Now

Publisher: RGCD

Cart: £35.00 (RGCD)

Digital: $7.99 (itch.io)

Monstro Giganto is the second game (following “Boxy Moxy”) developed by “The Pirates of Zanzibar”, A C64 dev team power house comprising Antonio Savona (P0 Snake, Planet Golf, L’abbaye Des Morts, Fix it Felix Jr.), Lobo (graphics) and Aldo Chiummo (music). It’s fairly unique because the graphics are drawn entirely from the PETSCII (8 bit Commodore’s equivalent of ASCII) character set and features great colour, music and of course, being an Antonio Savona game tons of awesome sampled speech - which was provided by a professional voice actor.

Monstro Giganto - A glorious PETSCII C64 brawler via RGCD is now available

If you've been following Indie Retro News and the latest C64 updates, you would've known that Antonio Savona, Lobo and Aldo Chiummo of the Pirates of Zanzibar, were working on a brand new PETSCII C64 game called Monstro Giganto; a homebrew that's very similar in artistic design to another game we have featured called Digiloi. Well do we have some awesome news for you if you've been eagerly awaiting this game, as Antonio Savona has announced Monstro Giganto is now available for your Commodore 64.

Monstro Giganto - A glorious PETSCII C64 game gets another video tease via RGCD

If you read our previous article, you would've known that Antonio Savona and team were working on a brand new PETSCII C64 game called Monstro Giganto; a homebrew that's very similar in artistic design to another game we have featured called Digiloi. Thankfully the game is still progressing well, as thanks to a heads up from our good friends RGCD, they have shown us new footage of the game being played on a MEGA65 devkit!

BoxyMoxy - A High quality C64 puzzle game has been published by RGCD

Although I'm not usually a fan of puzzle games, even though I do feature them on occasion. We've just found out from RGCD via their own Facebook group, that they have finally published the high quality puzzle game for the C64 called BoxyMoxy. This game according to Antonio Savona who had also worked on L’abbaye Des Morts, Planet Golf and Chopper Command, has said that he has coded coded the game with Lobo and Aldo Chiummo, and the game features full on unforgiving puzzle gameplay!

Jump! - Amiga version of Yoomp! gets its first footage teaser!

The Amiga scene just keeps on giving us the good stuff, as not only do we now know that Jump! is still coming to the Amiga, which is the Amiga AGA/ECS version of a game originally called Yoomp! But as of today a new teaser trailer has been released below. Yoomp! 64 was released last year by RGCD and Psytronik Software on the C64, as port of the fantastic Atari XE/XL game. It featured gaming mechanics in which you need to bounce a ball through many different three-dimensional textured tubes, to collect as many points as you can while trying not to fall off the edge.

Yoomp! Amiga version of Yoomp gets a fabulous tease, coming soon from RGCD

Even more great gaming news now, as we've just been contacted by Solo, that Zbigniew Ross author of Yoomp!64 is not only working on an Amiga port of the game, but as of today a new trailer has been released showing just how cool this game actually looks! Now some of you might remember this title that's because Yoomp! 64 was released last year by RGCD and Psytronik Software on the C64, as a port of the fantastic Atari XE/XL game.

2019 C64 Yearly Roundup and GOTY Nominees

Hello everyone and welcome to my 2019 C64 roundup. We’ll take a look at some of my highlights for the year, some of Neil’s picks of the year and announce the Indie Retro News GOTY nominees.

2018 was an incredible year for C64, and 2019 did not disappoint either. In fact we covered more C64 game releases this year in Indie Retro News, than any year since I joined in 2015… and we probably saw more releases this year than any year since the C64’s commercial hay day. We’d also be treated this year to the return of the RGCD 16KB Cartridge game development competition. The competition in the past has been responsible for bringing us tons of amazing games, many of which would get professional produced physical editions. Including some legendary C64 releases like Tiger Claw, Power Glove, Platman Worlds, C64anabalt, Super Bread Box, Micro Hexagon and P0 Snake.

Wolfling Enhanced - RGCD announces Nesdev game will be coming to the Amiga, C64 & PC/Linux/MacOS!

In 2017 Lazycow released an early version of a high quality platforming game for the NES as an entry for the 2017 Nesdev competition. It gained favourable feedback during that time with one such member noting the game had nice level design, felt non linear and incredibly moody with rather nice animation. Well the news of this week is something special, as we've been told by RGCD that they will be releasing an enhanced version of the game, that will be coming to the Amiga, C64 and PC!

RGCD officially killing it with 4 new C64 cartridges announced!

Not happy with continually supporting the Commodore 64 game dev scene with the phenomenal 16KB Cart compo -James Monkman of RGCD announced 4 brand new cartridges.  Following 2 official announcements for Retaliate DX and Grid Pix on the RGCD blog page, I spoke to James, who confirmed that the next C64 cart release will be Kobo64 - an interesting 16KB multiscrolling shoot em up in the vein of Hunters Moon and Survivor.  Followed by Retaliate and Grid Pix as well as a new version of Psytronik's Argus - finally getting a cart release featuring on cart saving.

GET EM DX - A one or two player maze-based arcade C64 game released!

We have certainly been flooded with C64 news this month, what with Super Mario Bros, 1337 Karage, Rivarly, Mashed Turtles and Panzer gracing our Commodore screens. But now it looks as if another game is ready to be enjoyed, as we've just been contacted through our twitter page that RGCD has released GET EM DX; a previously discontinued C64 cartridge game that was developed in house by Georg Rottensteiner, Ilija Melentijevic and Sean Connolly.

SkillGrid - A wicked AGA Shoot em up released for the Commodore Amiga

Even more Amiga news for this week and one I think you'll agree is pretty damn awesome! As we've just been told by RGCD that the previously work in progress Shoot em up called ' SkillGrid ', has just been released and can be purchased through the RETREAM and or RGCD website. This game of which we have featured before, is an endless score-attack vertical shoot 'em up that has been in development by RETREAM and works on an Amiga 1200/4000 and cd32!

RGCD C64 16KB Cartridge Game Dev Compo launching this Saturday!

We have featured many awesome C64 games this year, but if you're looking to create one yourself then look no further than this fabulous upcoming compo. As RGCD (#rgcdc64compo19) will be launching the C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition as from this Saturday at 12:00 AM! Following on from the success of all of their previous competitions, the competition creators are hoping for a fantastic 2018/19 full of incredible games all working in 16KB cartridge ROM format.

Aviator Arcade II - An awesome C64 shoot em up gets a full release

Even more fantastic news has appeared in our inbox, as RGCD has finally announced the commercial release of ' Aviator Arcade II ', a game by Mark Hindsbo, Saul Cross & Thomas Petersen, which originally appeared as Aviator Arcade in 2014 as a three level 16kb cart game for the RGCD annual c64 game development competition. This game was developed after much praise and feedback from the Aviator Arcade version, as RGCD set out to release a feature packed Aviator Arcade II that blew us away during both of its preview teasers.

Bruce Lee inspired game ' Tiger Claw ' available for the Amiga this weekend! [UPDATE-Released!]

Another news topper for this morning as today we found out that RGCD's brilliant Bruce Lee inspired C64 game 'Tiger Claw', has been released for the Amiga and Amiga CD32 as a digital download with a boxed edition available separately . This game was originally released for the C64 developed by Lazycow and Saul Cross with an exclusive release on cartridge by RGCD for backers of the C64 in Pixels Kickstarter, before it became available to the general public as a digital download.

Bruce Lee inspired game ' Tiger Claw ' arriving on the Amiga before Christmas

Well this is fabulous news, as earlier today we found out that RGCD's brilliant Bruce Lee inspired game 'Tiger Claw', will be coming to the Amiga and Amiga CD32 just in time for Christmas. This game was originally released for the C64 developed by Lazycow and Saul Cross with an exclusive release on cartridge by RGCD for backers of the C64 in Pixels Kickstarter, before it became available to the general public as a digital download.